Research Triangle Park, NC November 4th. 2002 – matterCast Inc., providers of content distribution and rights management products and solutions, today announced the beta release and demonstration site for its SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) based e-Publishing and collaboration solution for serving Adobe® PDF (Portable Document Format) content on the web. The first in a series of planned releases aimed at automating the digital content supply chain, matterCast’s SVG Document Server allows for the immediate and controlled online distribution of PDF content in SVG format, combining the presentation quality of PDF, the structural features of XML, the web based features of HTML and the collaborative features of a networked environment.

“We are extremely excited about this technology and the possibilities it opens up”, said Ranjiv Sharma, President, matterCast, Inc. “Many companies have huge reserves of PDF content that they would like to make available on the web. The online formats available to these companies have, so far, had major drawbacks. HTML does not provide the presentation quality of PDF, and PDF distribution does not allow for many web based business models. matterCast’s SVG solution combines the benefits of PDF and HTML allowing for high quality documents to be distributed with the ease and flexibility of web based business models. Whether your document contains scientific notations, mathematical symbols or musical notes, it will render and print exactly the same way using matterCast’s SVG solutions.”

matterCast’s solution consists of a set of tools and components for automating the workflow and deployment of PDF content as SVG. These tools include direct PDF to SVG conversion, a browser-based SVG viewer, and the SVG Document Server. matterCast’s direct PDF to SVG conversion maintains the fonts, layout and graphics as well as internal and external document links. These SVG documents can then be served by matterCast’s SVG Document Server, which includes server-side components that provide value added features such as watermarking, search hit highlighting, stream compression and masking of the document as well as providing an integration point for custom business rules. In addition, the Document Server provides centralized collaboration services to add workgroup features such as document annotations, which are shared instantaneously among workgroup members. matterCast’s enhanced document viewer is a brandable, browser-based viewer, incorporating Adobe® SVG Viewer, that provides search, zoom, print, page-by-page navigation as well as mark-up tools for annotating the document.

SVG Demonstration Site

matterCast has launched its SVG Demonstration Site, to highlight some of the capabilities of its SVG solutions. This site provides samples of SVG content converted from PDF, served from matterCast’s SVG Document Server, and viewed through matterCast’s SVG viewer. In addition, the site allows for the importing of your own PDF content into the SVG Document Server, demonstrating the ease and flexibility of distributing your PDF content on the web. Click here for Demo Site

About SVG

SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics. It is a W3C Standard and has the support of leading industry veterans including Microsoft, Adobe, Sun, IBM, Cannon, HP, Kodak, Quark among others. SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. Because it is vector based, SVG figures can scale to fit small devices like hand-held as well as large monitors, without losing fidelity, thus making your documents more portable than ever.

About matterCast

matterCast, Inc. is a provider of products, services and solutions for the distribution and management of digital content. matterCast’s services include consulting, planning, design and development to help customers identify and achieve their strategic digital distribution objectives including content handling and management, metadata management, digital rights management, content syndication and channel management. For more information visit http://www.mattercast.com.

Contact Information

Ranjiv Sharma matterCast, Inc. (919) 313-4635 ranjiv@mattercast.com